Security agencies in Lugari Sub County, Kakamega County, have intensified search for Munyuki Secondary School Principal Simon Isiaho Shange who went missing on Monday, November 3.
According to the Sub County Police Commander Robert Kurgat, Shange allegedly vanished mysteriously from an accident scene along the Eldoret-Malaba highway in the wee hours of Monday after his car crashed into a truck.
He said: “In the morning of November 3, a report was made to us that an accident involving a truck and a Toyota Premio car had occurred at stage Omega near Lumakanda junction along the highway.
“At that particular time the traffic police officers couldn’t establish who was the driver of the car as he had disappeared. It was therefore towed to Lumakanda police station and reported to have been driven by an unknown person. However, after a short while we received information that the car belongs to the now missing school principal,” he added.
Kurgat said combined efforts to trace the principal by the family and the security agencies are yet to be successful stressing: “We have tried reaching out to all the nearby hospitals and anywhere else we think he might be in vain.
The Department of Criminal Investigations Officers also tried tracking him through his phone but it was switched off.”
The police boss urged members of the public who might be having any clue on the principal’s whereabouts to share the information with them while appealing to the principal if he is alive to come out and end the anxiety.
The principal’s wife Salome Mukuna Shange who spoke to the press reiterated the police boss’ sentiments appealing to anybody who might be having information regarding his whereabouts to report to the nearest police station.
She recounted how on Monday morning a teacher from Munyuki secondary school called her looking for the principal. She stated: “I tried finding out only to be told his vehicle was involved in an accident and had been towed to the police station.
I visited the accident scene and spoke to the person who pulled my husband out of the car and took him across the road,” she recalled.
“In the process he saw a lady who was in the truck coming to the damaged car and he decided to go and find out who she was and what she wanted. When he went back to where he had left the principal, he allegedly couldn’t find him,” Mukuna said.
She said they have visited all the nearby hospitals including those in Webuye, Turbo and Eldoret without tracing him.
By Melechezedeck Ejakait
